Emmett Till’s body is taken to Chicago’s Roberts Temple Church of God for viewing and funeral services.

Mamie Till decided to have an open casket funeral, saying “There was just no way I could describe what was in that box. No way. And I just wanted the world to see.”

Tens of thousands of Chicagoans wait in line to see Emmett’s brutally beaten body.

People lined the street outside the mortuary and days later thousands more attended his funeral at Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ. Photographs of his mutilated corpse circulated around the country, notably appearing in Jet magazine and The Chicago Defender, both black publications, and drew intense public reaction.

According to The Nation and Newsweek, Chicago’s black community was “Aroused as it has not been over any similar act in recent history”.

Till was buried on September 6th in Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip, Illinois.

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This is my question is it any better now we have to come together as a people there is a God God will fight our battles for us he will protect us a lot of us don’t believe believe believe in the truth believe just believe and this kind of stuff is still happening today.

Even if he wasn’t just a child, he was a human being. I’m glad the case is reopened, and hope that that lying bitch will face some sort of justice for the horrific suffering her lie caused. The murderers are already dead, but she should still suffer some consequences.

Absolutely I hope they hang that old bitch. Last year in the clarian newspaper and Washington Post, Carolyn Bryant did an interview with these newspapers and admitted that she lied. Carolyn Bryant is responsible for getting Emmitt Till murdered

Two months ago, I had a nice apartment in Chicago. I had a good job. I had a son. When something happened to Negroes in the South, I said, “That is their business, not mine…Now, I know how wrong I was. The murder of my son has shown me that what happens to any of us, anywhere in the world, had better be the business of all of us.

Its not that This young man died in Vain…it just we are not able to see the Impact till God make it clear…Gods work on this matter and any other is not in Vain! God Bless the Till family and all that has been hurt and kill by This Ignorance!

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The evil of the hands of a white men in the south who bestowed their hatred only is widely shown to the world that white is only transparent from the dark hearts they carry inside their chest. I ask what human being does this to another human being as young as 14yrs old. This hate only can live in the deepest darkness of the abyss never to come up for light and thats where i would like to know that these souls shall live forever.